Author: Francis of Assisi

Quotes

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

- Francis of Assisi

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

- Francis of Assisi

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

- Francis of Assisi

We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.

We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.

- Francis of Assisi

For it is in giving that we receive.

For it is in giving that we receive.

- Francis of Assisi

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

- Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

- Francis of Assisi

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

- Francis of Assisi

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

- Francis of Assisi

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